The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread (December 2021 - July 2023)

[XXR & Friends]

Checking back, the first track I did for NWH was 41.5 hours after tickets went on sale. Now, due to the difference in release schedule I won’t be able to do that exact difference (it would be 430AM) but I should be able to do it 44-45 hours after. My target for The Batman is 900.
 

Spider-Man: NWH - 41.5 Hours Post Release - 24 Screen Theater

31 show times, 2039 tickets sold 

[Old Spice]

Tix are live at Cinemark Salt Lake. No tix sold yet at the theater I track for Thursday, but Friday has already sold 34 for the 7:00 and 8:00 PM shows.

[katnisscinnaplex]

23 hours ago, katnisscinnaplex said:

 

Day	Movie	Area	Theaters	Shows	Total Seats	Total Sold	New Sales	% Sold
T-0	Death on the Nile (EA)	Jacksonville	5	5	1,392	51	20	3.66%
		Phoenix	1	1	410	9	2	2.20%
		Raleigh	2	2	412	7	7	1.70%
	Death on the Nile (EA) Total		8	8	2,214	67	29	3.03%
T-1	Blacklight	Jacksonville	6	15	1,761	11	4	0.62%
		Phoenix	7	15	1,447	7	1	0.48%
		Raleigh	7	12	858	17	7	1.98%
	Blacklight Total		20	42	4,066	35	12	0.86%
T-1	Death on the Nile	Jacksonville	6	24	5,241	41	7	0.78%
		Phoenix	7	20	3,753	79	21	2.10%
		Raleigh	8	16	2,010	129	17	6.42%
	Death on the Nile Total		21	60	11,004	249	45	2.26%
T-1	Marry Me	Jacksonville	6	18	2,666	44	5	1.65%
		Phoenix	7	18	2,654	55	9	2.07%
		Raleigh	8	15	1,747	42	10	2.40%
	Marry Me Total		21	51	7,067	141	24	2.00%
T-8	Uncharted	Jacksonville	6	46	7,536	157	18	2.08%
		Phoenix	6	21	4,242	157	11	3.70%
		Raleigh	7	26	3,637	123	5	3.38%
	Uncharted Total		19	93	15,415	437	34	2.83%

 

Death on the Nile comps

Last Duel - 2.93x (1.025m)

Ghostbusters - .178x (737k)

Free Guy - .62x (1.36m)

Average - 1.04m

 

Marry Me comp

West Side Story - .76x (610k)

 

Blacklight comp

The Protege - .63x

 

Uncharted comps

TSS - 1.278x (5.24m)

NTTD - .742x (3.86m)

Dune - .588x (3m)

Average - 4.03m

Day	Movie	Area	Theaters	Shows	Total Seats	Total Sold	New Sales	% Sold
T-0	Blacklight	Jacksonville	6	15	1,761	15	4	0.85%
		Phoenix	7	15	1,447	13	6	0.90%
		Raleigh	7	12	858	26	9	3.03%
	Blacklight Total		20	42	4,066	54	19	1.33%
T-0	Death on the Nile	Jacksonville	6	24	5,241	57	16	1.09%
		Phoenix	7	22	3,836	118	39	3.08%
		Raleigh	8	17	2,058	163	34	7.92%
	Death on the Nile Total		21	63	11,135	338	89	3.04%
T-0	Marry Me	Jacksonville	6	20	3,090	62	18	2.01%
		Phoenix	7	19	2,686	58	3	2.16%
		Raleigh	8	15	1,747	55	13	3.15%
	Marry Me Total		21	54	7,523	175	34	2.33%
T-7	Uncharted	Jacksonville	6	46	7,536	168	11	2.23%
		Phoenix	6	21	4,242	170	13	4.01%
		Raleigh	7	26	3,637	139	16	3.82%
	Uncharted Total		19	93	15,415	477	40	3.09%

 

Death on the Nile comps

Last Duel - 2.56x (896k)

Ghostbusters - .189x (783k)

Free Guy - .59x (1.3m)

Average - 992k; Prediction - 1m

 

Marry Me comp

West Side Story - .6x (478k)

Prediction - 500k

 

Blacklight comp

The Protege - .77x

Prediction - Not Reported

 

Uncharted comps

TSS - 1.205x (4.94m)

NTTD - .695x (3.62m)

Dune - .580x (2.96m)

Average - 3.84m

[BruiseCruise]

Death on The Nile : 69 on RT

Marry Me: 80 on RT

Blacklight: 9 on RT oof

[XXR & Friends]

Just got my tickets for Batman through the AMC app. 
 

730PM IMAX for Friday. Ticket price $18.50 each. Same as NWH.

 

EDIT: Looks like they’re now live across the board. No queues or crashes as of yet.

Edited February 10, 2022 by PenguinXXR

[grey ghost]

So apparently The Batman tickets are being sold now. 

[Porthos]

Matinee pricing in effect at Regal (except for most PLF showings) and Studio Movie Grill.  Not in effect (locally at least) at Cinemark.  Pretty much the standard locally as the last few 3pm/4pm movies.

Edited February 10, 2022 by Porthos

[Eric the Minion]

Total Seats are filled up. Won't really dive into seats until tonight, because I'm pretty busy, but there's a lot of seats to fill.

[BruiseCruise]

All my local theaters have tons of available seats as of 2 minutes ago

[keysersoze123]

Nothing crazy so far. Prime time Imax/PLF are filling up in big markets. That is normal. Let us give it a day. Even thursday PS start is kind of off the norm plus some early fans have tickets for tuesday imax shows. 

[XXR & Friends]

After 1 hour my theater is at 88 tickets sold for The Batman (not including the 146 sold for the Tuesday screening.)

 

I was curious to see the initial rush but won’t be checking every hour. I’ll look again in about 7 hours.

[Old Spice]

One hour in at my non-PLF theater in Salt Lake City and 17 tickets have been sold for Thursday and 59 for Friday.

[grim22]

Pretty clear sales trends in SoCal - IMAX and PLF are first preference and are filling up really well. Some IMAX are sold out again, AMC Dolby seems like second choice which are also selling out. Normal shows are slower but steady sales.

 

6pm and later shows are selling better than the 3pm shows (makes sense with people still being at work at that time), the 3pm sales will basically be a bonus for previews.

 

The Wednesday 7pm AMC Dolby shows are all pretty much gone in SoCal. Front rows only left.

[TalismanRing]

BATMAN:

1:40PM (started selling at Noon) (2.20.22)

 

WED (RPX) - 35/320

THUR (Total) - 60/ 4814

           (RPX) - 47/960

 

I have SPIDER-MAN & ENDGAME earliest at 24 hours. Will try to check Noon tomorrow.

(Just placing here so I won't have to look for them tomorrow)

 

SM: (11/30 12pm - 24 hours)
(Total) 1305/5068 25.47%
(RPX)   696/960 = 72.5%

 

ENDGAME: (Next day 1:30pm)

2,470/3,737 = 66.09%

[el sid]

The Batman, counted a few minutes ago, had only in the AMC Fresh Meadows 8 showtimes and 291 sold tickets for March 3.
Comps: BW had after nearly one day 193 sold tickets in that theater, F9 had after ca. one week 202 sold tickets.
A promising start for sure. Let's see how many tickets are sold tomorrow .

Edited February 10, 2022 by el sid

[Landon1195]

I think the IMAX showings diluted some of the rush. A lot of fans probably already have their tickets.

[el sid]

Death on the Nile, counted today at 11am EST for Thursday:
 

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 90 (5 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 47 (5 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 6 (2 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 6 (3 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 32 (3 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 157 (5 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 128 (7 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 466.
Up 30% since yesterday.

Death on the Nile, counted today at 11am EST for Friday:
 

NY (AMC Fresh Meadows 7): 83 (8 showtimes)
Miami (AMC Sunset Place 24): 31 (9 showtimes)
Grand Rapids (AMC Grand Rapids 18): 22 (5 showtimes)
Austin (AMC Lakeline 9): 13 (4 showtimes)
Tempe/Phoenix (AMC Centerpoint 11): 31 (4 showtimes)
San Francisco (AMC Metreon 16): 163 (8 showtimes)
LA (AMC Universal): 144 (8 showtimes)

Total tickets sold in 7 theaters: 487.
Up 36% since yesterday.

Comps (all counted on Thursday for Friday): The Last Duel (4.8M OW) had 124 sold tickets in 6 theaters,

Stillwater (5.2M OW) had 41 in 6 theaters,

West Side Story (10.6M OW) had 613 sold tickets also in 6 theaters,

Jungle Cruise (35.0M OW) had 817 sold tickets in 7 theaters

and Moonfall (9.9M OW) had 368 sold tickets also in 7 theaters.
House of Gucci's (14.4M OW) final number (on Friday for Friday) in 7 theaters was 1.048.
So 10-15M OW from the comps. I tend to the top end because Murder on the Orient Express also started higher than expected and to lose half of the audience would be bad enough.
 

Marry Me had today at 11am EST 198 and 210 sold tickets for Thursday respectively Friday. Means it jumped since Tuesday 55% and 46% which is not too much. E.g. Respect jumped nearly 100% and that in one day.
Comps (all for Friday): Last Night in Soho had 283 sold tickets,

Respect had 247

and WSS had 613.
This film could have good legs but due to the modest presale numbers I think high single digits are likely this weekend.

Blacklight had today at the same time 41 and 37 sold tickets for Thursday respectively Friday. This is the sum of 6 theaters and instead of the AMC Fresh Meadows (where it has no showtimes) I added the AMC Lincoln Square 13. But strange enough, one evening show had ca. 200 sold tickets so with that show it would be 238 sold tickets for Thursday. I could joke now and say that people mixed the B's but Idk what's really the reason for this almost Sell Out.
Comp: Copshop (2.3M OW) had on the same day 49 and 37 sold tickets. Because without this one dubious show the sales of the two films are practically identical (also in the single theaters) and also due to the worse Sunday I guess a 2-3M OW is reasonable.

[Dragoncaine]

45 minutes ago, Landon1195 said:

I think the IMAX showings diluted some of the rush. A lot of fans probably already have their tickets.

Definitely. All of my buddies' showtimes are sold out for Tuesday, as are mine. These are all people who would've seen the movie opening night or opening weekend, and my IMAX auditorium in particular has a huge amount of seating. Anecdotal, but it could speak to the slower-than-expected Thursday sales.

 

I would also imagine presales would hopefully pick up over the weekend, as announcing during a workday on Thursday isn't quite ideal.

[sabrecmc]

Definitely a lot of availability for opening night in the Dallas area, even for IMAX and Dolby.  Friday evening sales look decent so far. I honestly expected it to be a harder ticket to get, but I guess those really excited about it are going to the early screenings.

[Porthos]

Just finished up setting up my sheets.  Little over 1,200 tickets sold this morning locally (1,218 to be precise) for a total of 1,693, which is a very solid start.  I'd give a BW comparison, but I didn't realize until later in the day that some of the theaters at the time were marking socially distanced seats as sold.

 

Can say though that just those sales from this morning (and NOT counting the sales from Tue/Wed) have already passed Black Widow's entire first day of sales.

 

(no, there is absolutely no point in comparing this to NWH — thanks for asking)

((fine — total sales so far are about 12.7% of NWH's entire first day))

 

A little more than 70% of total sales so far are on Tue/Wed [513 | 425], so yes, Tuesday and Wednesday showings are burning off a lot of demand at the moment.